Custom Blockchain and Smart Contract Payment Development

Not all industries are benefitting from the digital revolution in payment technology. Many customers are unaware just how much of every purchase goes not to retailers, but instead to banks, credit cards, merchant accounts and payment gateway providers. Every innovation adds new costs for merchants, with payment technologies preferring to increase transaction margins rather than market share.

SYB International is the only payment solutions company directly addressing these inefficiencies with custom blockchain payment and smart contract systems. Our custom solutions drive efficiencies and provide low cost transactions in any industry. With smart contract technology.

SYB revolutionizes an inefficient industry and empowers merchants to take control of their own payments.

Rising Fees Threaten Producers and Retailers

Digital payments have never been so flexible or convenient, but fees have never been so high. As consumers abandon cash, payment service fees are piling up and squeezing margins in every industry.

Financial companies often deliberately confuse clients with complex fee structures and opaque service agreements. It’s time for a technology that makes payments simpler – and cheaper.

How SYB International Can Help

SYB International knows blockchain technology and smart contracts are the future of digital finance and payment processing. This technology offers inherent security and fraud protection, in addition to these three key benefits:

1. Low Transactions Fees: Blockchain tokens can exchange hands without the risk of duplication or third-party verification, limiting the reliance on large and expensive financial services companies to guarantee transactions and protect against fraud

2. Built-In Verification and Records: Along with financial transactions, blockchain ledgers can be programmed to record a variety of data, such as customer information, payment history, proof-of-payment, tax calculations and delivery verification.

• Account Debits/Credits: Automatically debit or credit an account based on previously agreed criteria in the smart contracts, including adjusting recurring payments.

Case Study: High Risk Industries

Financial companies consider any business that has an increased chance of chargebacks to be High Risk. Merchant account service providers punish High Risk industries with exorbitant fees and restrictions.

SYB International developed Zi App, in partnership with Alternate Health Corp., to address these unfair fees and empower High Risk merchants with a flexible, turnkey payment processing solution.

The Zi App Payment System

Zi App Wallet

Zi App Wallet

The Zi App Wallet is coded specifically to work with the unique programming and software of the Zi Utility Token, allowing Zi App to perform a transaction by assigning a new private key to a Zi without having to move a token through a centralized account.

• The Zi App Wallet consists of private and public cryptographic keys and does not actually “hold” tokens.

• Public keys are used both to verify ownership of Zi’s and to provide an origin or destination address for financial transactions.

• Private keys give users exclusive access to their wallets and control transactions.

• Zi App communicates all financial transactions to the blockchain and integrates with point-of-sale systems.

Zi App Tax or Affiliate Wallets

• Taxes can be automatically calculated and either remitted directly or sent to a tax reserve account.

• Sales commissions can be sent directly to marketing affiliates per transaction.

• States do not actively sell tokens back into the system; instead they automatically exchange their tokens for local currency every quarter.

• Auditors, governments, and tax authorities can have access to a private distributed ledger of all transactions and applicable tax information.

Our Partners

Support Your Buds is proud to be partners with the following industry leaders:

Alternate Health Corp.

Alternate Health is a diversified healthcare company focused on the legal medical cannabis market. It is one of the only cannabis companies that delivers consistent revenue without growing, manufacturing or distributing the cannabis plant. In 2016, Alternate Health developed its proprietary CanaPass software, designed to manage state-compliant medical or recreational cannabis transactions.

Zi App

Zi App is an innovative mobile app that allows you to pay for products and services from all major credit card companies in a matter of seconds. Zi App processes cash transactions directly from your smart phone to any retailer. Whether transactions include personal to business, or business to business, Zi App offers secure, private and environmentally friendly transactions

Team and Advisory Panel

Howard Mann

Chief Executive Officer

A prolific entrepreneur, Howard Mann is the founder of Alternate Health and the Co-Founder of DC Netcast Media Group Inc. Making a name for himself in online business and technology, Howard has developed numerous annuity-based membership platforms, social networks, television and video production, animation and merchandising, branding and direct marketing projects. As a pioneer in the online gambling industry, Howard operated, managed and divested an early stage software and licensing firm that grew to a tremendous success internationally.

Howard is the former Director of New Business Development for World Gaming PLC, and the former Director of Product Development and Marketing for PlayStar PLC. Howard has also made numerous appearances as a commenter and correspondent on a variety of news media programs. Howard attended Sir Sanford Fleming College in Ontario, Canada with a Degree in Computer Science and was admitted into the Legal Arts program at Trent University in Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Michael Murphy, M.D.

Chief Medical Advisor

Dr. Murphy is the Chairman and CEO of Alternate Health Corp. He attended the University of Texas College of Pharmacy and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He was chief resident for the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital and the Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. During his 30 plus years of private practice in pain medicine, he founded, operated and divested a number of health care related ventures.

In addition to the medical ventures, he also helped found The Bank of San Antonio where he currently sits on the Board of Directors as well as a registered independent investment company. Dr. Murphy also spoke nationally for Medtronic Neurological and was their keynote speaker for their national sales conference. He has also taught physician practice management seminars across the country for many years. In addition, Dr. Murphy was the founder and Chairman of the Board of what is now one of the largest independent medical groups (anesthesiology) in the country.

Tanguy de Courson

Vice President of Technology

Tanguy began his programming journey when he was attending UCLA in 1995. While studying, he joined iGallery, a start-up internet company in 1996, and made his way to Lead Developer within a short period of time. At iGallery, Tanguy pioneered a large amount of the technology that went on to become the makeup of advertising online as we know it today. The company ended up being one of the top grossing entertainment sites on the internet in the 90s. After his departure from iGallery in 2002, Tanguy started his own technical-consulting firm, called 0x7a69.

Since then, Tanguy has successfully grown the company, managing large teams of programmers and operations personnel. The team has mastered many programming languages, such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, Go, Javascript, in addition to many back-end systems and setups. Tanguy and his team build and maintain high availability systems for various companies, both boutique and well established, while remaining flexible in the face of any technical challenge.

Stephen Bugbee

Vice President of Development

Stephen Bugbee is a technology consultant who specializes in sales, marketing, business development, management and operations in the technology sector. His proven track record in taking companies to profitability is second to none. Stephen initially worked with many large brands in the entertainment space at the inception of the Internet assisting companies like Carsey Werner, King World and the Coca Cola Company to embrace early rich media technologies. This was followed by helping Digital Island acquire software, Sandpiper Networks and Exodus prior to preparing the company for the Cable and Wireless acquisition. For the past 15+ years Stephen has helped many companies reach heightened profitability by utilizing his experience and skill-set to Director manage and drive revenue.

Tony Russo

Vice President of Operations

Tony has had a long and industrious career in owning and managing companies involved in affiliate marketing, payment processing, and website and payment gateway design and development. In 1999, Tony built an affiliate network consisting of 2,000 websites and 5,000 affiliates. The network was one of the largest in the world for more than 10 years, operating in more than 50 countries. During that time, Tony traveled to at least 50 countries to develop relationships with numerous banks to obtain merchant account processing for the website companies he owned.

Beginning in 2002, Tony designed and built a payment gateway known as Pay Scout. At the time Tony sold the software technology, the Pay Scout gateway was integrated with over 300 banks worldwide. Tony was also the creator of Creative Souls PR Group, a company providing social media management and monetization services to numerous celebrities and artists. Recently, Tony has designed and deployed mobile payment applications on the Android and IOS Platforms, including Eecopay which enables high risk merchants to process payment transactions at the point-of-sale through blockchain wallet technology.

David Bartone

Vice President of Legal Affairs

For over 25 years, David Bartone has represented companies engaged in electronic commerce and credit card processing. His clients have included banks, independent sales organizations, electronic banking organizations, financial institutions, retail merchants, and high-risk merchants. Based out of Washington, DC, David has been involved in lobbying and providing information and knowledge to the U.S. Congress and federal government agencies on a number of matters at issue in the payments industry.

Aside from his legal experience in the bankcard industry, David has been co-founder of other bankcard companies, including Cell Charge Processing, which placed its proprietary “TakeCharge” mobile credit card processing product in 987 Office Depot stores across the U.S. As a principal, David has acquired unique experience in the bankcard industry, including recruiting, training, and managing sales agents and supervising employees in all aspects of risk management. David received a J.D. from Catholic University of America and a B.A. from Kent State University.

Rick Anderson

Vice President & General Manager

Based in New York City, Rick brings a background in film, digital media, IT, and online education. Rick has founded, and assisted in creating, numerous Internet-based digital media companies and platforms. He has worked in technology and media from a member of KPMG’s IT Advisory Group to Chief Technology Officer of VeoMed—an online medical education company that offered continuing medical education to doctors—where he went on to become their Chief Operations Officer/President.

In the healthcare industry, Rick has worked in a partnership capacity with Harvard Medical School, Columbia Medical School, Johns Hopkins, New York University, and more. In 2016, Rick brought his background to Alternate Health as managing director of Alternate Medical Media, Alternate Health’s education and media department. Rick holds a B.A. from Yale University with concentrations in Behavioral Neuroscience and Media.

Scott Holtby

Vice President of Communications and Public Relations

Scott is the Vice President of Communications and Public Relations with SYB Blockchain Technologies. He began his career as an editor with Reed Business Information in digital strategy for the company’s trade publications. Scott left publishing to start his own communication consultancy, advising both public and private sector clients, including the Ontario Ministry of Transportation.

He has since focused on strengthening shareholder value and company reputation, first as PR Manager with DC Netcast Media Group and recently as Investor Relations and Communications Manager with Alternate Health Corp. Scott holds a B.A. with honors in Economics and Political Science from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and a diploma in Corporate Communications and Public Relations from Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Nick Swan

Manager, Training & Customer Service

Nick is a Senior Project Manager with SYB Blockchain Technology. Focusing on the Canadian marketplace, Nick began working in cannabis during the industry’s infancy. An expert in this space, he was previously a Business Analyst at DC Netcast Media Group and Operations Manager at Alternate Health Corp. Prior to joining the cannabis business, Nick held positions in operations and business development in both California and Chile. Nick studied English Literature at the University of Toronto, where he was president of the Toronto Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi.

George Kopinsky

Manager, Due Diligence

George has 20 years of experience in the electronic payment processing industry. He has held the position of National Sales Director for Merchants Bankcard Network. George also is the founder and president of Solution Card Services Inc., and, more recently, Merchant Services Support. The Company specializes in merchant acquiring and providing consulting services to other merchant services companies including Independent Sales Organizations, ‘ISOs”, and Merchant Services Providers, “MSPs”.

His commercial banking experience includes underwriting operating lines of credit and commercial equipment and mortgage loans. His agricultural banking experience includes underwriting crop production loans, agricultural equipment loans and agricultural mortgage loans. George is a graduate of the Commercial Intermediate Banking School, University of San Diego, in San Diego, California, and of the National Commercial Lending School, University of Oklahoma, in Norman, Oklahoma.

Annie Knyazyan

Manager, Bank Compliance Manager

Annie acquired her extensive knowledge of the fundamentals of banking, retail, and corporate processes while working in personal and business as an Operations Supervisor with OneWest Bank and Client Specialist at City National Bank. Her responsibilities opening personal and business accounts, including checking and savings accounts for LLCs, S-Corps, C-Corps, fiduciaries, and sole proprietorships. One of her primary responsibilities was to ensure that all documents, identifications, and beneficiaries were approved and properly accounted for.

Annie later left the banking industry to start her own business in the entertainment industry. She was involved heavily in sales and marketing pairing products with diverse Social Media influencers and celebrities online on a number of media platforms. Annie developed strategies to grow influential accounts to generate money and monetize the social media presence of celebrities via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. She also paired up with internet programmers to design mobile applications and websites.

FAQS

Some of our most frequently asked questions

What is SYB International?

SYB International is the leading blockchain developer behind the revolutionary payment software Zi App and the Support Your Buds system. We work directly with merchants to supply or build cutting edge blockchain solutions for any business, offering rates and savings no traditional payment processor can match.

Why is SYB NOT a Cryptocurrency?

SYB functions only with a utility token that has a direct, fixed exchange rate with U.S. dollars. Unlike cryptocurrencies or crypto-assets, the SYB Utility Token is not intended to fluctuate based on the popularity of CanaPass or the SYB System or any level of success behind businesses participating in the SYB Economy.

Does SYB International make custom applications?

Yes. SYB International, the developers of the, can work with any business type to provide merchant services at a much lower cost than traditional processors. We will advise and guide you to a blockchain payment solution that fits your unique requirements.

What is a high-risk merchant?

All processors consider card-not-present transactions as a risk, which includes all Internet and over-the-phone transactions. The High Risk classification is usually applied to certain industry types. The High Risk label reflects the likelihood of potential disputes or chargebacks within the industry. Businesses related to travel are also usually deemed High Risk, due to the amount of cancellations that can occur.

What is Zi App?

Zi App is a turnkey payment processing solution with a focus on addressing the financial challenges of High Risk industries. The Zi App Wallet and Zi unit of exchange work together to create a secure, transparent, and convenient system to ensure consumer protection compliance, accurate payments, and detailed automated reporting for all merchants.

Why Alternate Health?

SYB International and Alternate Health created a partnership to leverage SYB’s blockchain experience with Alternate Health’s point-of-sale and e-commerce expertise. The two companies have also partnered in developing Zi App with this technology.

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